Get Ubuntu Update Notifications Reminder In Panel Bar

Apt Update Indicator is an app to get Ubuntu update notifications. The Apt Update Indicator uses pkcon refresh by default and apt upgrade -y by default to upgrade the system. It has an optional update count display feature. It is a forked from Arch-Update application – an update indicator for ArchLinux and Gnome-Shell.

It shows also the following package status (as in Synaptic):

Available updates

New packages in repository

Local/Obsolete packages

Residual config files

Autoremovable packages

Install Apt Update Indicator

To install, simply download and execute make install command. Users can download it from https://github.com/franglais125/apt-update-indicator